Union ministers Prakash Javadekar and Dr. Jitendra Singh briefed the media on key C abinet decisions.
Here are the key decisions made during the Cabinet meeting:
* Cabinet approved Mission Karmayogi – national program for the development of capacities of public administration – to lay the foundation for capacity development of civil servants to remain rooted in Indian culture while learning from best practices around the world .
* Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said that ‘Mission Karmayogi’ aims to prepare Indian officials for the future by making them more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technological .
* Mission Karmayogi will focus on the development of individual (civil servant) and institutional capacities. At the top, there will be a PM HR Council that will be composed of national and international experts under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
* A Capacity Development Commission will be established that will harmonize training standards, create shared teachers and resources, and have an oversight role over all training institutions so that there is a common understanding of the aspirations and development goals of the India.
* Cabinet approved the introduction of the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020 in Parliament, in which five languages - Urdu, Kashmir, Dogri, Hindi and English – will be official languages. The decision was made based on public demand, Javadekar said during a news conference.
* The inclusion of Dogri, Hindi and Kashmir as official languages in Jammu and Kashmir is not only the fulfillment of a long-pending public demand, but also in accordance with the spirit of equality initiated after August 5, 2019 said Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
* The Union Cabinet also approved three memorandums of understanding: one between the textile ministry and Japan for the quality assessment method, between the mining ministry and Finland; and between the ministry of new and renewable energies and Denmark, said the minister of information and broadcasting.
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